First Brew - Kenya Kiambu Handege

  • Coffee Name: Kenya Kiambu Handege
  • Region: Kiambu
  • Country: Kenya
  • Producer: Kiambu Handege
  • Processing: Fully Washed
  • Cultivar: SL 28, SL 34
  • Elevation: 1600-1800 meters
  • Roaster: Blue Bottle Coffee
  • Brew Method: Chemex With Chemex Paper Filter
  • Roast Date: Oct 23, 2020
  • Brew Date: Nov 1, 2020

About This Coffee

Coffee descriptions can seem vague. But one taste of this, and you’ll get what we mean by florality. Such delicate aromas are uncommon in Kenyan single origins. Usually, we’re gushing over juicy acidity or tropical fruitiness. But for a few years now, when we’ve had the luck to carry Handege Factory’s coffees, its perfume grabs our attention first. “We tasted dozens of coffees blind while in Nairobi this year,” our green coffee buyer recounts. “But Handege’s was the only one I could identify every time it was on the cupping table.”

The coffee mug is a Hasami Natural Mug, gritty-textured porcelain mug created by Hasami Porcelain. Hasami Porcelain was founded by Los Angeles–based designer Takuhiro Shinomoto.

The studio is named in honour of the town of Hasami in the Nagasaki Prefecture of Japan, where traditional ceramics had been crafted since the Edo period four hundred years ago.

Submitted for the 100DaysToOffload project.

Kenya Kirinyaga Kaguyu

Single-origin coffee from Kaguyu Factory

Coffee Name: Kenya Kirinyaga Kaguyu
Process: Fully Washed
Producer: Kaguyu Factory
Region: Kirinyaga
Country: Kenya
Elevation: 1400m
Roaster: Blue Bottle Coffee
Roast Date: Oct 8, 2020
Brew Method: Chemex With Able Kone Filter
Brew Date: Oct 10, 2020

First Brew - Verve Kochoha Kochoha

Producer // Deri Kochoha

Country // Ethiopia

Region // Hagare Maryame, Sidama

Cultivar // Ethiopia Heirloom

Process // Wet-Process

Elevation // 1800 Meters

Tasting Notes // Blackberry, Floral, Rooted

Cup Characteristics:

Kochoha is layered with vibrant blackberry and boysenberry notes that meld perfectly with the backbone of violet and rose. The body is deep-set and rooted as the finish of wildflower of honey moves in.Verve